Modeling

You will have more friends… you will be admired… you will be known… you will be accepted… you can have a lot of fun.

You will be compared… you will be criticized… you will be backstabbed… you will be pulled down… you will be misjudged… you will have fake friends… you will be misled… you will be tempted… you will be distracted… you can be lost.

All these things seem to be inevitable. What is important is to see who will show you the first set of things and who will act and lead you to the second set. Will the wise good people admire you, or will the foolish bad ones? Will the dishonorable people accept you, or will the educated good-mannered ones? Will God appreciate you, or will the devil?

Do not care if the shallow ill-mannered people will criticize you… they are shallow and ill-mannered. Do not care if dishonorable people pull you down… it is just their nature to do so. Do not care if people will judge you… only foolish people judge even though they don’t know enough. Do care if you think God does not appreciate what you have done, what you are doing, what you have become, and what is your purpose in doing something.

Let’s all be models despite the great challenge it gives us. Let’s not be afraid to step up and do that good thing. Let’s not be afraid to be the ones who ask our friends to go to church and pray. Let each of us be not afraid to be the first one to stop doing what is bad. Let’s not be afraid to be the ones who commend people for being humane.

Let’s all be models and feel that great feeling when God appreciates us.

Providence

So far my day was quite... well... maybe you should describe it, yourself. I got up a little later than the time I'm supposed to get up... pretty much ordinary for me. I prayed on my way to school. I got to meet my crush on school. Basically, naive of what's going to happen to me today, I just went to do my usual stuff. Having an hour and a half left before my next class, I decided to have my lunch. I went to the store where I usually eat and where I can make myself full for just 50 bucks. I got into the line, had my turn, and ordered my usual meal. Just after paying the cashier, I notice something on the floor just beside my left foot. It is a fifty peso bill. Well, without hesitation, I pick up the bill. But nope, I didn't keep it... yet. I asked first the girl beside me if it's her bill (coincidentally the girl beside me in this very moment I'm typing this story is the same girl I’m telling you right now... what’s with this day??). She said no. That's when I kept the bill. Feeling lucky, I happily carried my meal to a vacant table. Now guess what happened. Well, the table I went to was actually full of left plates and a janitor was, at the moment, cleaning it. I decided to put my meal in the part of the table that was cleaned already and alas! My meal dropped on the floor! In an instance, I made almost everyone in the cafeteria look at me… well, at the area at least. I don't actually get embarrassed with that kind of circumstance but what went on my mind first was the use of the fifty bucks that I have gotten from the floor. The reason why I was the one who found out the 50 peso bill, is that I will need it to buy another meal, isn’t it? I did need it, although what went to the floor was just worth 34 bucks ‘coz I fortunately didn't drop the 16 peso juice included in the meal. Anyway, I went to the store again just 3 yards a way from the table and bought the same meal. At first I was disappointed but eventually I was smiling about what happened. Is destiny making fun of me? I thought to myself. Nope, the story doesn’t end there. When I got back to the table, 2 girls approached me. They asked me if I want to be a model. I asked for their company and they answered that they are only a group of some kind in the school. I said that it’s ok. They asked for my number, I gave it to them and I was left with my meal. But this time I was even pondering more on the things that just happened. It seems to me now that the dropping of the meal happened also for a reason. Now, is that the reason why I accidentally dropped my meal? Did it happen for them to notice me? Will these series of events ever going to end? Is destiny making itself felt by me? Am I getting weird now? Hmmm… did the girls notice me to lead me to something special? I don't know… yet… and I’ll definitely find out. :) Hmmm… there is still one question left. What is the reason of this girl being beside me again? Is this for the reason that I have to ask for her number? Hmmm... Maybe… :)… (looking at the girl)… (“natotorpe”)… nope… maybe not... :)

The End?

A friend asked me a couple of days ago: If you don’t have to work hard to get money, what would you do? He is an Electronics Communications Engineer and he told me that if he has to answer the question, he’ll say he’d dance. Answering the question now, I think I have to say I’ll dance too. I’m having some reminiscences of what have happened to me in dancing, and yeah, they are just the greatest things. Indescribable and only ardent performers could feel, that is what they are. Well, I could hardly shed tear saying that I have to end these things almost totally but I hope not permanently. Problems crop up and when they happen in the family, sometimes you just have to do hard decisions by choice. Two wrongs will not make a right and I have to be wise in this instance. I have to be a lot surer now that nothing can interfere with my plans in life and so, then, I could put up the best family I can. Like my friend I have to be practical now. Things may be hard at first but I know this is all for the best. Is this the end of dancing for me? I can only hope not… :(